Project/scholarship details

  • Funder

    FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

  • Funder's country

    Portugal

  • Funding program

    3599-PPCDT

  • Funding amount

    62,909.00 €

  • Start date

    2011-08-09

  • End date

    2015-05-31

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Challenges, advances and perspectives in Island Biogeography

Borges, Paulo A. V.; Cardoso, Pedro; Gabriel, Rosalina; Ah-Peng, Claudine; Emerson, Brent C.

Island biogeographical research is becoming more and more fashionable, with the continuous identification of new challenges that are critical for the advancement of science. In this contribution we identify biases and limitations associated with island biogeographical studies, and also describe recent advances and propose new perspectives. The main proposals include: 1) downscaling island biogeographical studie...

Date: 2016   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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MtDNA metagenomics reveals large-scale invasion of belowground arthropod commun...

Cicconardi, Francesco; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Strasberg, Dominique; Oromí, Pedro; López, Heriberto; Pérez-Delgado, Antonio J.; Casquet, Juliane

Using a series of standardized sampling plots within forest ecosystems in remote oceanic islands, we reveal fundamental differences between the structuring of aboveground and belowground arthropod biodiversity that are likely due to large-scale species introductions by humans. Species of beetle and spider were sampled almost exclusively from single islands, while soil-dwelling Collembola exhibited more than ten...

Date: 2017   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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A combined field survey and molecular identification protocol for comparing for...

Emerson, Brent C.; Casquet, Juliane; López, Heriberto; Cardoso, Pedro; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Mollaret, Noémy; Oromí, Pedro; Strasberg, Dominique

Obtaining fundamental biodiversity metrics such as alpha, beta and gamma diversity for arthropods is often complicated by a lack of prior taxonomic information and/or taxonomic expertise, which can result in unreliable morphologically based estimates. We provide a set of standardized ecological and molecular sampling protocols that can be employed by researchers whose taxonomic skills may be limited, and where ...

Date: 2017   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) on touristic trails of...

Carvalho, Rui; Cardoso, Pedro; Gil, Artur José Freire; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Ramos, Cândida; Lamelas-López, Lucas; Pereira, Fernando

In the Azores, as in many other temperate, semi-tropical and tropical islands, historical patterns of habitat loss have typically resulted in lowland clearance, meaning that the last remnants of the pre-human pristine forest that covered the major parts of oceanic islands are in the mountain areas (Gaspar et al. 2011). The communities of these mountain forests are of critical importance for the protection of cu...

Date: 2021   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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SLAM Project : Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in t...

Costa, Ricardo; Borges, Paulo A. V.

BACKGROUND: Long-term monitoring of invertebrate communities is needed to understand the impact of key biodiversity erosion drivers (e.g. habitat fragmentation and degradation, invasive species, pollution, climatic changes) on the biodiversity of these high diverse organisms. The data we present are part of the long-term project SLAM (Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural fo...

Date: 2021   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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The Role of Small Lowland Patches of Exotic Forests as Refuges of Rare Endemic ...

Tsafack, Noelline; Fattorini, Simone; Boieiro, Mário; Rigal, François; Ros-Prieto, Alejandra; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Borges, Paulo A. V.

Islands have been disproportionately affected by the current biodiversity crisis. In island biotas, one of the most recurrent anthropic alterations is species introduction. Invasion of exotic species may represent a major threat for island biotas, because invasive species may change species composition and simplify community dynamics. We investigated diversity patterns of native and introduced species in native...

Date: 2021   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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